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Koosha’s latest endeavor pushes the boundaries again. This time, he created an entire album in collaboration with an artificial intelligence (AI). The result is pretty weird.

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On Friday Koosha released his fourth album, “Return 0,” which features music created by Yona, AI-powered software Koosha created but that he refers to as an “auxiliary human.”

“Yona’s engine is comprised of a series of generative software that generates sentences, melodies (Midi information), and singing via a complex text-to-speech process,” he told Dazed Media.

Koosha sang Yona’s creations himself for “Return 0.” While the album received a middling 6/10 from Pitchfork, the notoriously choosy music magazine did concede that “these human-sung vocals are probably the most satisfactory part of Return 0.” In other words, Yona’s composing skills might need some work.